Acquisition & Leveraged Finance

Fortis Merchant Banking is an active participant in the leveraged finance market. We specialise in providing a wide variety of integrated, tailor-made debt financing solutions.

Our clients

Fortis provides debt to a wide variety of customers from around the globe, including financial sponsors and private equity houses, as well as medium-sized and large corporates. These clients come to our Global Acquisition Finance Team when they need lending for strategic corporate events, such as:

• LBOs, MBOs or MBIs
• divestments of non-core activities
• ownership successions
• mergers and acquisitions
• public-to-private conversions
• re-capitalisations (i.e. second- and third-round financing)
• off balance sheet structures

How we can help you

Our teams of experienced specialists, operating globally from a network of presences in major markets, are ready to provide your company with expert advice and structuring services for all kinds of debt financing.  They can also assist with the due diligence process, fiscal optimisation of the implementation, as well as tailoring the debt mix to match your specific situation. Our spectrum of leveraged finance products – at all levels of the capital structure – includes:

• junior, senior and mezzanine debt
• hybrid loans (e.g. convertibles, subordinated loans)
• bridging, off balance sheet and pre-IPO loans
• stapled, asset-backed and non-asset-backed financing

And as your committed financial partner, Fortis can also make co-investments in the form of equity.

Fortis Merchant Banking: The right choice

We can put at your disposition one of the most highly developed acquisition and leveraged finance networks in the business. Our team is widely reputed for its professionalism, in-depth knowledge, innovation, speed of execution and discretion. Fortis' Global Acquisition Finance specialists act internationally, but are centrally steered, enabling us to easily meet your need for cross-border transaction teams. Furthermore, our bankers can act as your point of entry for a much wider offering of Fortis Group services.

To learn more, contact our experts via the 'Where to find us' link on the right side of this page.